Mutterings - Apr 26

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Thank you :: Kindly
2. Pills :: Pop
3. Watch :: Stop
4. Don’t move :: or I shoot
5. Meeting :: Strange (Wilfred Owen)
6. Physical :: Stress
7. Finding :: Trail
8. Dangerous :: Moonlight (I don't think I;ve ever seen it)
9. Closely :: Guarded (secret)
10. 8 days :: Film

GAFCON's contempt for the Church of England

Here's Nick Baines (Bishop of Leeds) on GAFCON's latest conference and communique.

I was once at a meeting of evangelical bishops in England when three English Gafcon men came to meet us. They had stated that this was the case and that bishops were giving their clergy a hard time. We asked for evidence so we could consider it before we met. Bishop Tom Wright and I were just two who were outraged at the misinformation, misrepresentation and selective re-writing of history presented to us. When we began to challenge this, we were told that we shouldn’t get bogged down in the detail and could we move on. And they got away with it. I am not making this up.

But go and read the whole article. Anyone who isn't signed up to their shibboleths is automatically an enemy - if Nick Baines feels this then they need exposing and naming for what they are before they damage more churches with their self serving rhetoric.

Mutterings - Apr 19

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Roller coaster :: Ride
2. Notification :: popup
3. Yellow :: Submarine (I don't think I've ever seen it!)
4. Humor :: Pun
5. Parental :: Control
6. Blow :: Low
7. Duck :: Billed Platypus
8. Height :: Dizzyness
9. Wolf :: Clothing (sheep must be in there somewhere)
10. Troubling :: Memories

Teaser Tuesday - Apr 14

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

She looked imploringly into his eyes, aware that he had paid far too much money for a meal that would leave him hungry in an hour's time. Her own appetite was gone, quite gone.

Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac - a re-read - it is the Book Group's book for this month. Here's a fairly randomly chosen review! Brookner's study of a single woman staying at a Swiss Hotel in the off season a quiet, gentle study an age away - apparently - from England in the 80s. She loves these plots on reflective single women, I remember the initial read (just) and bits of the TV version but only the atmosphere, so am awaiting events with anticipation!

A teaser up on Tuesday - shocking (and I finally notice the move of the original website!)!

Mutterings - April 13

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Science :: Knowledge
2. Everywhere :: Waves
3. Seed :: Corn
4. Comedian :: Mask
5. Philadelphia :: Cheese
6. Disillusioned :: Angry
7. Rolls :: Bread
8. History :: Personal
9. Eagles :: Dare
10. Disappointed :: in love

Teaser Tuesday - April 7

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Yes it's even later than usual, I blame the bank holiday (possibly!)

Eventually, he too, like Handel, travelled all over Europe, but precious little is know about what he got up to. He spent the last couple of years of his life in Vienna, where sadly, he pulled off the Composers End No 207 - the so called 'Death in Poverty' position - perfectly.

The last years of Antonio Vivaldi from Stephen Fry's 'InComplete & Utter History of Classical Music' - this was a Christmas present and I'm quite enjoying it. Quite a bit of uinformation I didn't know - though my reading the pre 19th century music was a bit lacking. There's some cringeworthy references to Jimmy Savile - the book was published in 2004. It's also sometimes a bit disconnected, reading like bits have been shoved together - - p113 compares the Beethoven Eroica with Haydn and Mozart symphonies saying it's not in the same playing field 'It's EPIC it's AMAZING'; then p118 on the Beethoven 5th 'Up to now the most amazing thing in the world of symphonies has been Mozart or Haydn' - he should make up his mind! I was also surprised last night to get past 1827-8 with no mention of the deaths of Beethoven or Schubert.

Spring

In the current warm spell, many things are blossoming.

Mutterings - April 5

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. With me :: Be Gentle
2. Goodbye :: I'm leaving you (the curse of the Sound of Music..)
3. Cap :: Peaked
4. Idiotic :: Statement
5. Forever :: Friends
6. Bleeds :: Heart (I'm probably thinking of the computer vulnerability)
7. Expected :: Long (long expected Jesus.. and Advent hymn)
8. Touching :: Place (oh dear that's another hymn!)
9. Shells :: Spiral
10. Awake :: Shake